**SEMINAR The Future is Public Amsterdam, December 2019** --------------------------------------------------------- *Panel 3* *Notes: Ana Méndez de Andés* ------------------------------------------ 3 questions: / access: prices, low-income households, migrants / technical knowledge and information: how is generated, communicated and transfered / scale: local/national/european Questions: - “Write servicies [agua], read democracy”. Beyond control, collaborative governance as democratic decision-making and co-production of both public policies and know-how. - Public ownership not as State property. Public as commons means new ways to ensure access to resources: financial, but also environmental and social. Heritage (infrastructure) - ACCESS – KNOWLEDGE - Paris – (Benjamin) knowledge: investment and in-house expertise + acces to water: fountains. Migrants + climate change: hetawave + farmland // heritage: past and future >> Heritage (welfare state) >> Unions - KNOWLEDGE – SCALES - Norway – (Unni) knowledge: unions + employee-driven innovation // working conditions // environment: waste recycling // scale: inter-municipal coooperation // local scale in govenment, unions, politicians Unions >> SCALES- FINANCIARISATION - Canada – (Roberts) financiarisation – more credit (with lesss efficiency) // Canada Infrastructures Bank // Social Impact Bonds // Ireland >> Critical lessons, and challenges: - Access - Knowledge - Scale Re-municipalisation , citizenship >> How could a translocal – and international approach could help to address the challenges Legal ground of co-governance and co-production *Workshop – Democratice the Public Notes: Ana Méndez de Andés* -------------------------------------------------------------- Tools for democratization: • sharing tools via platform ◦ legal tools ◦ tools for decison-making ◦ naratives – to the outside ◦ political frame – to the inside • creating new tools Participation: • about empowerment and control ◦ opening up the imagination on ownership and governnace: ◦ representative democracy is translated into public services ▪ Barcelona Energía and the binding participatory limit ▪ not to think only about voting mechanisms Collective accountability and transparency • regardless who provides the service (state, local gov or coopratives) • sustainable Link to climate change • resilience • locally anchor initiatives Notion of “public” • expanding form public services to ownerhip more generally • expand the notion of “public” beyond the state related with forms of autonomy Public services • collective self management models Notion of democracy • beyond reprsentative democracy Notions of collaboration Three levels: • theory of democratic • history • actual ways of implementing it • particpatory means to provide/define the services: Active places of struggle: • forms or organising Collaboration - Translation